Check out these fabulous photos of Leicester's St Margaret's bus station in the 1980s

St Margaret's bus station in Leicester in the early 1980s before it was redeveloped

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These fabulous photos show the old St Margaret’s Bus Station in Leicester before it was replaced with the one we have today.

They were sent in by a reader who signed his letter simply “John of Humberstone” and gave no dates for any of the photos.

We sent them to Mike Greenwood, director of archives and research at Leicester Transport Heritage Trust, who believes they were taken in the early 1980s, prior to the station being demolished in the autumn of 1984.

The station had opened in 1941 and came complete with concrete bus shelters.

Its dour appearance was due to the circumstances of its construction.

It was a product of utilitarian wartime production during major shortages of building materials and labour.